what is he frequency and time and stuff for the cross country net  noone ever seems to mention it and I've been reading for months til I got tired of the thread lol  might be a good idea to post that info at the top of the messages fr necomers

73 kb7nla

On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Junior Lolley wrote:

> Tom, being down here in the south as about as far as you can get without
> hitting water I will take a listen from here.
> 
> 
> Junior Lolley KG4itd
> Liberty County E. C.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of tom behler
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Late Saturday Afternoon Midwest/East coast Roundtable?????
> 
> Hi, folks.
> 
> Well, as some of you know, I've been toying around with the idea of starting
> 
> a midwest/east coast roundtable.  This is being proposed  so that some of us
> 
> who can't hear each other normally on the regular Sunday afternoon 
> Crosscountry Blind Ops net, will be able to talk with each other on the air 
> in another way.
> 
> What I'm proposing here is a lower sideband roundtable on 40 meters at 2100Z
> 
> on Saturday afternoon.  For those of you who are a bit rusty on time 
> calculations, that would be 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Central, etc..  I thought
> 
> it'd be easiest to stick with the 2100Z time, since this is what we all are 
> used to for the Sunday afternoon cross-country blind ops net.  I would think
> 
> that, at 2100Z, there may still be some relatively short skip on 40 meters 
> from the mid west to the east coast, and that the band may lenghten out 
> enough to give us even longer workable distances.
> 
> We will need to find a frequency, and I'm thinking of something like 7.195 
> MHZ.  This would be well above the new 7.175 lower limit for ssb operation 
> for General class licensees, If memory serves me correctly.  It also would 
> be below those pesky foreign broadcast stations.
> 
> It might be helpful for someone to do some checking, just to be sure that 
> the 7.195 MHZ frequency is not occupied by some sort of regular net at that 
> time.
> 
> Let me know your thoughts.  I'm open to any suggestions.
> 
> I'd like to take a shot at the roundtable this coming Saturday: January 
> 22nd, if that would work for others.
> 
> Could be lots of fun.
> 
> P.S. In calling this a midwest east coast roundtable, I, in no way, want to 
> imply that this is limited to those in certain regions of the country.  In 
> fact, nothing would please or excite me more than to have a good 
> long-distance contact with someone from the other side of the country!!! 
> Again, like the Sunday afternoon 2-meter cross-country blind ops net, 
> everyone is welcome!
> 
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI